Teddy bears bring comfort.
That’s the thought behind the Cal State San Bernardino effort to collect the furry stuffed animals that staff and students there are collecting. They aim to give each of the more than 500 students at North Park Elementary School one of the cuddly critters.
“Our precious babies need love, care and support,” Stacy Brooks, an administrative support coordinator for the psychology department, said in an email.
The San Bernardino elementary school was the site of a shooting on Monday morning that left three dead. Student Jonathan Martinez, 8, and his teacher Karen Elaine Smith, 53, were shot and killed by Smith’s estranged husband, Cedric Anderson, 53, of Riverside, who later turned the gun on himself.